Willardguy1

Well I know that nurses don't have time and neither do the scrubs, but we have 6 aides during the day, and they have plenty of time to clean the MRSA room, so that I am not scraping dried up blood, and who knows what else trying to total the room. I guess it is hard to explain from my end. Having to do it, makes me upset, because that room takes quite a while to clean and clean right. Since I am the only one who totals 7 rooms a night, in an 8 hour period, MRSA's take up a lot more time, especially if they have 2 or more. I love my job, makes me feel important, I guess I just want other people to pitch in when it comes to that, not to make my job easier, but to help out. It is sad that my co-workers (other housekeepers on 1st and 2nd shift cant lend a hand-by the way we are all housekeepers/aides/turnover). I just thought MRSA rooms were more important than other rooms, and I also thought they had to sit for 24 hours after they were cleaned. I guess I need to do more research on this. By the way I would be interested in knowing what your housekeepers use to clean your OR's, and are there betadine stains on your floors? If so, what is used to get them up? We use A-33 for floors and furniture, and bleach on the stains, but the bleach is really bad on me, and I would like to get away from it. I hope I am not bothering you or anyone else with all this babble. I just have questions, and who better to ask then a nurse:nurse:

Well all personnel (set-up crew and "total" crew) know how to clean a room. I guess what I am trying to figure out is should a MRSA room that is done at 1130am (last case) sit there closed for 10 hours or more until the total team comes in and cleans them. Imagine a most discusting surgery room, and how it would be after sitting 10 hours. Thanks for your advice and opions

I stumbled on this site and hope it is ok that I have joined so that I may ask questions. I am not a nurse, rather I am a surgery housekeeper. I terminally clean the rooms at the end of the day. I have a question though and would like any and all thoughts on the subject. When there is a surgery and it is MRSA, is it logical to have the case at 10:30 am , be finished by 11:30 am and then leave the room sit all day until I come in and terminally clean the room? There are other set-up personnell availble for cleaning, yet they won't touch this room. I guess I just don't understand why a MRSA room would be left to sit all day and wait for it to be cleaned. In the above example the room would have sat there for over 9 hours. Confused